Raising children
Subtitle: emerging needs, modern risks, and social responses
By: edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert.
Contributors: Berrick, Jill Duerr.; Gilbert, Neil, 1940-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780195310122
Subjects: Child rearing -- United States; Parenting -- United States
Description: Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care? How can their financial support be fairly allocated between parents? Should extended family members be paid for their help? Can women have full careers and also be good mothers? 'Raising Children' takes on these questions and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The past is not a foreign country : the historical education of policy / Paula Fass; title: From private to public : paying grandparents as caretakers / Jill Duerr Berrick; title: Supporting fathers' Engagement with their kids / Phil Cowan... [et al.]; title: Can women have careers and babies too? / Mary Ann Mason; title: Motherhood, work and family policy / Neil Gilbert; title: Child support : how much is just right? / Ira Ellman and Tara Ellman; title: Framing public interventions with respect to children as parent-empowering / Stephen D. Sugarman; title: Childhood ADHD : biological reality or social construction, with policy implications / Stephen P. Hinshaw; title: Do immigrant children have a fair chance? / Sylvia Guendelman and Kate Cosby; title: Non-academic needs of students : how can schools intervene? / Susan Stone; title: Families and schools raising children : the inequitable effects of family background on schooling outcomes / W. Norton Grubb.